As we come to the end of 2015 we just want to say a huge well done to Class 2. It’s been a fantastic, fun filled, busy term, we hope you all enjoy your holidays and look forward to seeing you next year! ‘Happy Christmas’ from the Class 2 team. Read More
Thank you to everyone who came to sing at St Thomas’ church this morning. I hope you all have a lovely restful Christmas and I look forward to seeing you next year!Read More
Well done for a fantastic term class 5! You have all worked really hard and deserve a rest with your family and friends this holiday! Have a lovely Christmas and I shall see you all back in school on Tuesday 5th January. Best wishes from Miss Clayton and Mrs Old.Read More
What a fantastic first, full term we’ve had in Class 9. We’ve been so busy and achieved a great deal already since September! What has been your favourite event or memory from this last term? Also, not forgetting, Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!!!Read More
Starting on Tuesday 5th January 2016, it is a fresh start for the new Table Tennis knockout tournament and what a exciting tournament it promises to be. We will be holding the draw in Class 8 at 10:30 at break time on Friday, so any one who has signed up, please come to Class 8 to find out your first round opponent! Good luck to all...Read More
“The Twelve Tasks Pre Christmas” The PTA has had another successful term with lots of events and fundraising. We want to thank everyone for your contributions, support and help. Here is a summary of the PTA activity this term of which would not have happened without the above support. On The First Task Pre Christmas…………………....Read More
Thank you very much to everyone who provided cakes for the Christmas Cake stall and to everyone who persevered in the queue, as always the queue was fast moving We raised £120.75 in all which was a tasty profitRead More
We celebrated Christmas in style by throwing a huge party for the whole of Key Stage 1! There was music, dancing, games, food, prizes and even a visit from Santa Claus himself! Read More
You’ve all worked incredibly hard this term so please have a lovely holiday with your families and friends! Remember you come back to school on Tuesday 5th January. Enjoy Christmas, With Best Wishes from Mr Mastrelli, Ms Slater and Mrs James.Read More
Tomorrow is the penultimate day of your first term in Class 8. What have you enjoyed about Class 8 this term? Do you have a favourite memory?!Read More
On Tuesday 7th December 2015, 8 Park Grove children went to Archbishop School’s swimming pool to battle it out against 7 other schools. Alexander Savkovic, Lucy Noble, Ivy Tegetmeier, Jaimie Farquharson, Helen Mackay, Lucas Torres, Tom Carter, George Phillips and their wonderful coach Miss Grainger took part in a Year 5 and 6 Swimming Gala last week...Read More
I had the great opportunity for another visit to Class 6 to learn, what the children had been working on over the last months. Due to my own background we concentrated for almost an entire lesson on Health and Fitness of Astronauts, and how physically challenging it is to become and to be one. It...Read More
We have been creating Christmas cards this week and they are very sparkly! All of the children have done fantastic writing inside them so I hope you are looking forward to receiving them.Read More
We are looking forward to a cake stall extravaganza tomorrow after school! – all cakes 50p. We hope to see to see you all there and /or join us for free festive drinks and nibbles thereafter.Read More
All of Key Stage 2 visited Class 9 this morning to take part in a huge art project! Everyone in classes 5 to 9 created a little piece of space-y art to add to a space themed collage, which we then displayed in the hall during our Christmas party. It was out of this world!!...Read More
Today we spent the whole afternoon making robots based on the designs we drew last week. We loved getting stuck in with the materials to build our models! Sometimes it was quite tricky to stick all the bits together so we had to help each other a lot! Here are a few our of creations…...Read More
Christmas Cake/Bun/Bake/Biscuit sale this week on Wednesday 16th December. Please bring all cakes to the staffroom that am – the more the better as we are sure it will be a busy one. Free festive drinks on offer too. (Remember to mark your name on your tin).Read More
The Christmas Fair made a profit of £750. This is less than last year, although there was no entrance fee this time, and there is plenty of wine in stock for the next event. Thank you to all those who donated items and helped on the night, and whose support ensures that community events like...Read More
Christmas came early at Park Grove School as the whole of Key Stage 2 were treated to a thrilling Table Tennis Ladder League final between Lucy Noble and Jake Coulby-Ackroyd on Friday afternoon. Dubbed “the greatest Park Grove final” by all who saw it, Lucy won in three dramatic sets 11-7, 8-11, 14-12 to earn her first Table Tennis title! There...Read More
Wow what a fantastic set of semi-final matches we were treated to this week! Here were the final results: Lucy beat Louie 11-7, 9-11, 11-8 Jake beat Ben 11-7, 11-6 Congratulations to Lucy and Jake, who have both made it through to the grand final in front of everyone in KS2. Another thrilling Park Grove Table Tennis final awaits…Read More
There were some fabulous Ladder League quarter final matches played this week. These were the results: Lucy beat Tom 12-10 13-11 Louie beat Mani 11-6, 11-5 Ben beat Kyle 11-0 11-8 Jake beat Chelsea 11-2, 11-4 Read More
Class 4 Newsletter 11th December 2015 – Here’s our newsletter for this week. We hope you all have a nice rest this weekend and come back on Monday morning feeling ready for the final week!Read More
A huge well done to all the pupils for their fantastic performances in the Christmas Nativity this week! They all worked incredibly hard to learn their lines, their instruments and their lyrics for the songs. I’m sure you will agree the play was a huge success and we are sad that it is over so...Read More
One more week to go before we break up. Next week is full of super Christmas activities so be ready for a fun week. Class 2 weekly newsletter 11.12.15.Read More
Here is the newsletter for this week. I’m sure you will all agree that the Christmas play was amazing and all the children were excellent performers. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! Mr Gardiner weekly newsletter 11.12.15Read More
This afternoon saw the highly anticipated final of Park Grove’s table tennis ladder league take place, with a fantastic finalist, Jake, from Class 9! The hall was full of excitement as the finalists displayed what everyone could agree was the best table tennis final in the history of Park Grove! Lucy won by a whisker...Read More
Thank you so much to all the parents who brought their children to the evening performances of our nativity. The singing volume was at its highest ever and I am sure you are as proud as I am for their great work!Read More
Yesterday class 5 and class 6 carried out an experiment to find out how rockets launch into space. We replicated this idea in our own experiment. Can you remember what we did and what did we find?Read More
Yesterday classes 5 and 6 made film canister rockets (using water and Alka Seltza tablets too) to demonstrate how a real rocket launches and defies the pull of gravity. There were many cheers on the upstairs landing as our rockets flew up to the high ceiling (almost touching it)! We found out that one and...Read More
Wednesday 9th December Agenda Register Apologies-None Money How much money?-We have £400 from last year’s School Council Sweet Stall but we need to give £50 to Mrs Jacobi which means that we will have £350 left. We made £215 this year so it means that we will have at least £700. What to buy We...Read More
Wednesday 2nd December Agenda Register Apologies-Mr Mastrelli Bagging up sweets Today we bagged up sweets for our School Council Sweet Stall on Friday. AOB Today there was no AOB because of the sweets.Read More
Today, in maths, we were given an exciting mission to complete! We had to look closely at the Apollo Missions and convert between days and hours to see which of the 17 missions lasted the longest. We had to beat the clock but, luckily, all of us completed it so mission accomplished!! What do you...Read More
So we have just completed our first rendition of the Christmas play and it went spectacularly. Well done to all the children involved, you were brilliant! Let’s see if we can repeat the performance at the same level tonight and on Wednesday night.Read More
Bags2School The final Bags2 school Call/Cull – the collection is on Wednesday this week (by 9am in the foyer) and we have a good healthy pile to send off. Thank you to all who have delivered bags. Lets have one final push this week to ‘fatten up’ the pile. Who knows, we may be able...Read More
Thank you to everyone for a lovely evening at the Christmas Fair. It was great to see so many people supporting the school and it was a very festive relaxed atmosphere. We will announce how much was raised very soon. Thank you very much to all who donated items and helped.Read More
They sure do here in class 9 when playing our new, original, maths card game, created by some of our own class-members! We had a great time being taught this new game and ‘debugging’ it to make improvements for when we play it during some of our maths starters. What do you think makes a...Read More
Class 4 Newsletter 4th December 2015 – Wow, what a busy week! Apologies for not sending out homework books, spelling books and reading records this week, we were working so hard on our Christmas Nativity that we did not get chance to hand these out! These can be taken home on Monday. Have a great weekend!Read More
Here is the newsletter for this week. The children have been making some very exciting things this week, one of which was a toy robot! What has been your favourite part of the week? weekly newsletter 4.12.15Read More
I visited Class 2 recently…what a busy classroom! First of all the children were doing ‘Guided Reading’ and I had the pleasure of listening to a child read. Next, there was lots of excitement as the children had the opportunity to bake gingerbread men and create recipe books in the shape of a gingerbread man....Read More
I was really impressed with your accurate volume work on Monday. What formula must you use to calculate the volume of a shape? Is there a certain order?Read More
This week we looked at and performed the classic winter poem “Winter Time” by Robert Louis Stevenson. What is the poem about? Did you like it ? If so why?Read More
We got very dramatic in Class 9 today, creating our own performance pieces based on the poem ‘Snow’ by Carol Ann Duffy. It’s a very interesting poem and has lots of powerful imagery, so it was perfect to create some effective and powerful pieces of drama to! What did you think to our performance?Read More
Here are some photos of the School Council hard at it preparing items for their Stall at the Christmas Fair. Thank you for the sweet donations (do keep them rolling in), the donations enabled the children to make some important decisions and plan their stall. PTA committee members have visited the School Council meetings over...Read More
This week in class 5 we are beginning to write our own sci-fi stories…I wonder what exciting events will take place in our stories and will any of them come to life in class 5?Read More
This sequence of photos fully depicts our lovely Park Grove School. The Christmas tree erection was a major event tonight. Members of the PTA committee helped, along with staff from all areas of the school, plus the folk who delivered it and it was overseen by members of School Council. Park Grove is one happy...Read More
Dear parents/carers We checked the PTA cupboard this am and the volunteer sheet outside of class 3 and unfortunately it was a Mrs Hubbard moment. We desperately need bottles, sweets, prizes and chocolates for the fair. By donating, this will keep PTA costs down and keep waists all trim before the food and drink onslaught!!...Read More
Calling all parents/carers, come and join us at the bar on Friday night at the Xmas Fair. There is so much fine liquid on offer, you could well be ‘mulling over the wine choices’. The children have lots on offer for them too, the crafts are free as is the choir performance. Magic show tickets...Read More
We’re learning about fractions this week including halves, quarters, thirds and many more. Here’s some photographs of us working hard to find these fractions and recording them on a whiteboard! Read More
A plea from School Council…we are holding a sweet stall at the School Fair, please could you consider donating any sweets for our stall. Please give sweets to class teachers (to give to school council) or place inside the bucket outside class 3. Just 1 small packet of sweets from each family will make a...Read More
Tickets are on sale every day at 3.15pm after school (outside class 4). Entrance to the Christmas Fair is free but if you want to grab half an hour’s worth of professional magical entertainment then why not buy a show ticket at only £1 each. The Christmas Magic shows are at 6.15pm, 7pm and 8pm...Read More
Here’s the newsletter for this week. This week we have had a lot of fun as it has been our cooking enrichment week. On Wednesday we baked gingerbread men and on Thursday we focused on Greece and made some tzatziki and a Greek salad. It all went down a treat! Which was your favourite food...Read More
After two months of pulsating matches, culminating in a thrilling victory for Jake Coulby-Ackroyd over a previously unbeaten Louie Powell, the Ladder League group fixtures have now all been completed. Here are the scores from today’s rounds: Round 13 Jake 5 Kyle 11 Aruma 13 Betsy 11 Louie 11 Lauren 4 Lucas 11 Zuzanna 0...Read More
We’ve been studying the Moon this week, in particular the eight phases on the Moon. Have a look outside now – can you see the Moon? What phase is it in?Read More
This week in Class 8 we designed and made a pizza for an French astronaut called Jean-Loup Chretien. We used traditional French toppings to create our French-style pizza. What was your role in making the pizza?Read More
We’ve just completed our Astro Science Challenge mission all about coding, it’s been great fun and we’ve all learnt a lot – including Miss Platts! You can check out our work on the Mission displays out in the main atrium, but here’s a taster of some of our fantastic web pages made about Tim Peake,...Read More
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